England 64-0 France: George Williams and Ash Handley score hat-tricks in thumping win

George Williams took implicit arsenic England skipper from Sam Tomkins

England took their archetypal measurement towards the 2025 Rugby League World Cup with a thumping triumph implicit France successful Warrington.

New England skipper George Williams led by illustration connected his location ground, scoring a hat-trick successful a one-sided encounter.

Williams's kicking crippled was besides cardinal successful mounting up Leeds winger Ash Handley for 3 tries.

With lone 3 players progressive from past autumn's disappointing World Cup campaign, which ended against Samoa successful the semi-final, this was a accidental for the adjacent procreation to involvement their assertion for some this autumn's Test bid against Tonga and the adjacent World Cup successful France.

And erstwhile England opened the scoring successful the 4th infinitesimal erstwhile a footwear implicit the apical by Williams recovered Handley connected the wing, it looked similar the location side's caller dominance against their opponents would continue.

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France, who were besides missing immoderate of their much experienced players, started to find their mode into the crippled without causing excessively galore problems for England, who soaked up the unit and played immoderate controlled rugby.

The new-look half-back pairing of Williams and Wigan's Harry Smith started to gel arsenic the fractional went connected and England took control.

And erstwhile Jake Wardle dummied to acceptable up his Warriors club-mate Smith for England's 2nd effort connected 20 minutes, Laurent Frayssinous's young broadside struggled to respond.

The visitors' defence stood disconnected arsenic escaped guardant Morgan Smithies fed different Wigan subordinate Ethan Havard for a debut try.

England were ascendant and connected the backmost of a Danny Walker 40/20, the shot was passed from Smith to Jack Welsby who fed Wardle to interaction down.

France fell further down moments aboriginal erstwhile a superb shot from Welsby acceptable Handley distant and helium bushed the defence to walk wrong for supporting skipper Williams to score.

In the last infinitesimal of the half, different infinitesimal of magic from Williams recovered Handley for his 2nd try, with Smith kicking his sixth extremity retired of six for a 36-0 vantage astatine the break.

England continued to power matters successful the 2nd fractional - and Handley turned supplier for Williams aft 53 minutes, though Smith was incapable to convert.

Handley completed his eighth vocation hat-trick connected the hr mark, acknowledgment to different superb Williams footwear retired to the wing, portion recognition indispensable besides spell to Litton for a interruption successful the build-up.

Another Williams tally acceptable up a effort for Wigan's Kai Pearce-Paul, who volition beryllium moving to NRL broadside Newcastle Knights adjacent season, earlier the skipper utilized his velocity to get connected the extremity of a Handley interruption to implicit his ain hat-trick.

And successful the dying seconds, Williams and Welsby combined for 1 last clip successful the lucifer to nonstop debutant Walker implicit for his archetypal planetary try.

England: Welsby, Handley, King, Wardle, Ashton, Williams, Smith, Holroyd, Walker, Havard, Nicholson, Pearce-Paul, Smithies

Interchange: Litten, Harrison, Currie, Dupree

France: Zenon, Romano, Langi, Laguerre, Marcon, Morgue, Rouge, Chan, Marion, Vailhen, Jullien, Cozza, Goudemand.

Interchange: Tison, Sangare, Scimone, Jouffret

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